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Impact of Culture on the Spread of Covid-19 Response

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Since the international spread of COVID-19, Australia has implemented several public

health initiatives to combat the disease's incidence and prevalence. The public health intervention

has been successful in virus testing, diagnosis, and treatment of COVID-19 patients. Due to the

COVID-19 epidemic, life in Australia has changed radically in recent months. Compared to pre-

COVID-19, the impact on how we live, work, socialize, and communicate has been significant

(K. Rohaun, 2020). Historically, Australia has been proud of its multiculturalism, but there has

been evidence of an upsurge in racial micro-aggressions and xenophobia (Raj, 2020). Culture is

amongst an essential degree to which individuals create their environment in their unique way.

Culture is a multi-faceted and multi-faceted notion that can be defined in various ways and by

different disciplines (Rao & Bhattamisra, 2020). Individual responses to the COVID-19

pandemic have been engaging in many communities and countries, highlighting the impact of

cultural intricacies on a pandemic response (Raj, 2020). Culture plays a critical role in shaping

presumptions to sickness, help-seeking behaviors and channels, and societal willingness to

support pandemic-prevention measures.

Cultural biases have been seen and impacted by more traditional responses to the

COVID-19 outbreak and its following isolation and lockdown tactics at the societal level (Rao &

Bhattamisra, 2020). Majority of the people around the world adhered to their cultural beliefs

regardless of the measures put forward to fight the pandemic. Indeed, numerous unique

community-led methods representing the essential ideals of intercultural discussion have

emerged in reaction to COVID-19 lockdowns (K. Rohaun, 2020). The current COVID-19 crisis

also gives us hope for new ways to create and sustain cooperation across diverse cultures,

religious traditions, systems of government, and geographical borders (Alshahrani, 2020). This

latest, more optimistic multinational solidarity was demonstrated through intercultural,

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international 'medical diplomacy,' in which countries sent doctors, doctors and nurses,

treatments, and hospital equipment across borderlines to countries hit hardest by the epidemic

and in need of specific medical competence and supplies. Pandemics like COVID-19 show that

diverse cultures would only contain highly contagious viruses to the extent that the general

populace's health systems of the world's poorest countries are backed (Alshahrani, 2020). More

transnational solidarity, cultural exchange, and equal and fair capacity-building across the

idealistic Development Agenda are required to eliminate the current public health risk and other

existential threats.
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